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Lil Rel Howery and I are nervously laughing over the fact that no one in Atlanta seems to be taking COVID-19 seriously. “It’s almost shocking when you first get here,” he says during a recent phone call. “You’re like, ‘did I miss something?’ People look at you crazy when you got a mask on, like

Casa Palopó With travel rebounding, hotels and resorts are tailoring packages to a new ultra-private travel theme – the resort buyout. And for the ultimate private vacation experience where better to head than Guatemala’s only Relais & Châteaux property? Located around 90 miles from Guatemala City on the edge of Santa Catarina Palopó, one of 12 Mayan

Each time I turn to the work of Mark McKnight, a 36-year-old Los Angeles–based photographer who won last year’s Aperture Prize and has become a kind of phenomenon in the fine art world, I find myself confronted by the same questions that bewildered me on first acquaintance. How can these images be so cold and

Garza Blanca Los Cabos Like many of you, I’ve been itching for a vacation now more than ever, so I made the bold decision to book a getaway and wanted to share my experience of what it’s truly like to travel right now amidst a global pandemic. With my customized ROAM Luggage suitcase in tow,

Yet if Glover has worked from the inside out – pursuing a disruptive agenda from within – Coel has been employing a different set of tactics: refusing to accept the industry’s prejudice as business as normal. If Glover’s agent of change was a Trojan horse, then Coel’s has been a grenade. To excel (and to

Sep. 28th, 2020 Japan is a destination like no other with a rich culture and heritage built on thousands of years emperors, samurai, and geishas. Tokyo is akin to New York, London, or Paris and the financial, business, and brains, if you will, of Japan. To the south is Kyoto that could be referred to

The sheer scale of the pandemic—and the volume of testing—means that there are far more false negatives occurring than we think. “Even if a test were 98% sensitive and 99% specific,” warned a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine, “it would still produce a false negative result in 2 of every 100

Dalwhinnie Farms Colorado became the first state to legalize recreational cannabis in 2014 and has since experienced a modern-day “green rush” with marijuana sales hitting a record $1.75 billion last year. And so, if there were ever a town where “Rolex products could share space with and pre-rolled joints,” it would be Aspen. Renowned for

If you love Black folks and Black culture, it’s impossible to scroll down the Black Magazine Covers Instagram feed without a chill going down your spine. There’s Ralph Ellison on the cover of The Atlantic. Malcolm X on the front page of the foundational Black general-interest and news weekly Jet. Aaliyah’s posthumous elegance on Vibe.

When it comes to raising his voice politically, Baby has reason to move carefully. In July he found himself in the midst of a hotly contested race for Atlanta district attorney when the long-serving incumbent, Paul Howard—the D.A. who prosecuted Baby and sent him to prison in 2014—announced on Facebook and Twitter that Baby had

Search warrants aren’t mere formalities; they’re written into the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution as an independent check on the government’s limited authority to seize and search “persons, houses, papers, and effects” — all things that, to the Founders, represented “the sanctity of a man’s home and the privacies of life.” Some 135

Womack says the lines “And I always been that kid, maybe I won’t be if I live / Long enough” were based on how he felt about always being the youngest person in the room. “He was always the kid, and also in that group of guys that he was collaborating with he was always

Six months into a pandemic that has grounded much of the world, I not only miss traveling, I miss the small rituals of flying. The plane movie, for instance. The ideal plane movie is something easy and low-stakes that you probably won’t ever think about again. You wouldn’t go see it in a theater for

That mindset comes through in lyrics like “Ache for the sight of friends,” as Pecknold cries on“Maestranza,” before offering a bit of sweeping assurance: “I’ve been safe in the thought/That the line we walk is the same one.” “We’ve had to find creative solutions to finding togetherness in the last six months,” he says, reflecting

I mean, one of the best stages in the world I think is EDC, Electric Daisy Carnival. You literally play on the main stage. It’s like 60,000 people. You don’t see their faces, but you can see and hear the energy of 60,000 people going up on a drop and that feeling is insane. It’s

This was a problem: Susannah was the co-lead singer of Prince’s protégé group, the Family, and her twin sister, Wendy Melvoin, was the guitarist in Prince’s band, the Revolution. Wendy and keyboardist Lisa Coleman had become deeply involved with the writing and arranging of the band’s music—a first for a performer who’d gotten his Warner

Black Tomato “When you look back on your life of travel, this will be one of the standout moments,” says Tom Marchant, co-founder of luxury travel specialists Black Tomato. Experts at curating hyper-personalized tailormade itineraries worldwide, according to Marchant, it’s their latest just-released experience – swimming with humpback whales under the midnight sun in Iceland– that

A few weeks ago I stopped by the GQ offices at One World Trade Center for the first time since the Work From Home era began. When I got there, a conundrum: During WFH I got used to working while standing up at a tall dresser, so I needed to find some way to quickly